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Anders Hammar reassigned MANIMALSNIFFER-21:
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Assignee: Anders Hammar (was: Stephen Connolly)
> Documentation Improvements
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> Key: MANIMALSNIFFER-21
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MANIMALSNIFFER-21
> Project: Mojo Animal Sniffer
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Maven Plugin
> Affects Versions: 1.7
> Environment: n/a
> Reporter: Eric Kolotyluk
> Assignee: Anders Hammar
> Priority: Minor
>
> I had a seriously difficult time trying to understand
> http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer-maven-plugin/index.html and I suggest
> you add the follow text after
> The Animal Sniffer Plugin is used to build signatures of APIs and to check
> your classes against previously generated signatures. This plugin is called
> animal sniffer because the principal signatures that are used are those of
> the Java Runtime, and since Sun traditionally names the different versions of
> its Java Runtimes after different animals, the plugin that detects what Java
> Runtime your code requires was called "Animal Sniffer".
> The intent of animal sniffer is to allow you to use <source>1.5</source>
> <target>1.5</target> with a 1.6 JDK and not accidentally link to methods like
> java.lang.String#isEmpty(). Setting the source to 1.5 will only flush out the
> class format; the signatures of methods used can only be enforced by the
> sniffer. For example, when you are on a Macintosh you cannot compile with JDK
> 1.5 so you might use http://mojo.codehaus.org/signatures/java15/ (note: be
> sure to use the latest version of the plug-in by checking
> http://search.maven.org/ for animal-sniffer-maven-plugin). See also
> http://mojo.codehaus.org/animal-sniffer/animal-sniffer/index.html for related
> information.
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